Recall the march to war in 2002-2003, the opposition should say to Americans. Recall in particular how this president went before the U.N. in 2002, and spoke to the General Assembly with such arrogance, such condescension, such a certainty that he was right and that everyone worth anything should acknowledge that and follow him. (Footage from that talk could probably be used to good effect.) He insisted on going to war over the objections of the international community as a whole.
And then recall how wrong this president turned out to be. He was wrong about the weapons of mass destruction. And then he was wrong in decision after decision in the waging of that war. (The book, by Larry Diamond of the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford –Squandered Victory—could usefully be adduced to delineated the eight or nine major blunders that helped assure that the Iraq invasion, so arrogantly undertaken, would be a disaster.)
Imagine what that would be like for you—if you’d been so cocksure of yourself, if you’d defied the “decent opinion of mankind,” if you’d been so arrogant and condescending toward other people who didn’t bow to the supposed rightness of your course, and then you turned out to be mistaken, and you also turned out to blow the operation to boot!
Imagine how embarrassed you’d be. How humbled. How apologetic. How less likely you’d be to assume that you were always right and that everyone who disagreed with you was always wrong.
Wouldn’t any decent human being be mortified to have behaved that way, and then made such a mess and been proved so wrong.
But now look at how this president has behaved.
But this president has a completely undiminished sense of entitlement, and of fierce insistence, on being the DECIDER on every question—not just Iraq, but S-Chips and all the rest. Take no prisoners fight to win. What does that say about the nature of this human being—that he is so unhumbled by being exposed for the incompetent bullying liar that he is, and that he continues to make of every decision a fight for dominance.
The American people should be led to see just what is right before our eyes. It doesn’t take any big psychological theorizing to get a clear picture from this data: this guy blew it and he’s not the least bit humbled or sorry about the disgrace he’s made of himself with this war in Iraq –and everything else, if less obviously so—and the disgrace that he’s made of all of us and our country.
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